Unit 5 - Mga Pista at Pagdiriwang (Festivals & Celebrations)

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TALASALITAANG PANGYUNIT:

 

Use an English-Tagalog dictionary for a definition of the words below whose meaning is not provided:
           
manghingi – to ask for something
alms - limosna
araw - day
patay - dead
going around - lumilibot                                                
soul- kaluluwa
gising – wake up
natutulog - sleeping
lilimusan - will be given alms
kalangitan – the heavens
atang - food offering for the departed soul, Ilokano origin
tulo ng kandila – candle drippings
pusoy - a card game similar to poker
undas/ undras- (Sp.) – Araw ng mga Patay; Araw ng mga Santo, Todos Los Santos
nananabako – smokes a cigar, tobacco
naninira – willfully destroys                                                
becoming- nagiging                                     
nangongolekta - collects
lapida - kinasusulatan ng pangalan, kapanganakan, at kamatayan ng nakalibing
puntod - syn.  libingan
sementeryo, kamposanto
celebration- selebrasyon
kung – if
kapag - when

 

dali-daliin – hurry,
kapwa, pareho – both, equally
nakatira - residing
baka – might, expresses uncertainty, surmising
nakaupo - seated
po, ho – particle in respectful speech
Only- lamang, lang
Fearsome, frightful,- nakakatakot
Half – kalahati  (e.g. kalahating kabayo – half horse)

 

 

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